Stable L-band superfluorescent fiber source using one pump

Wencai Huang; Xiulin Wang; Huiying Xu; Zhiping Cai

doi:10.1117/1.3168643

1 July 2009 Stable L-band superfluorescent fiber source using one pump

Wencai Huang, Xiulin Wang, Huiying Xu, Zhiping Cai

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 48, Issue 7, 075002 (July 2009). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3168643

Abstract

We first demonstrate that by inserting an appropriate section of unpumped erbium-doped fiber (EDF) in an erbium-doped superfluorescent fiber source (SFS) of double-pass backward configuration, a stable L-band SFS can be achieved. The fiber-length arrangement of unpumped fiber are shown to have significant effects on the output properties of the L-band SFS. The spectral linewidth is broadened, and the variation of mean wavelength versus pump power is eliminated to achieve a wideband and mean wavelength stable L-band SFS by optimizing the fiber-length ratio of the pumped fiber length to the total fiber length. For a 19-m-long total EDF with fiber-length ratio of 0.84, a mean wavelength stable L-band SFS with a spectral linewidth of 49.6 nm, an output power of 46.3 mW, and a mean wavelength of 1583.20 nm was experimentally achieved.

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Wencai Huang, Xiulin Wang, Huiying Xu, and Zhiping Cai "Stable L-band superfluorescent fiber source using one pump," Optical Engineering 48(7), 075002 (1 July 2009). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3168643

Published: 1 July 2009

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